I want you to look at him in all of his glory: “Larry the Liquidator.” The entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing God with other people’s money. The robber barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake- a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. … Read more
Let’s go to the video tape! ~Warner Wolf/Sportscaster Two days ago, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that the state’s attorney general was reopening an investigation into potential sex trafficking and other illegal activity at Zorro Ranch, the 7,560 acre property Jeffrey Epstein purchased in 1993 from then New Mexico governor Bruce King. This latest … Read more
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. ~Bruce Springsteen The title of today’s post was inspired by Nicholas Meyer’s novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, presented in the form of a dialogue between the storied detective and Sigmund Freud who was enlisted by Dr. Watson and Holmes’ brother Wycroft in hopes of … Read more
Revisions appear in RED. Every cohort of approximately 800,000 Americans living in a contiguous geographic area biennially choose someone to represent them in the United States Congress. However, to paraphrase a 1980s meme, “it depends on what the meaning of represent is.” For that matter, it should also depend on what the term “contiguous geographic … Read more
David Drumlin: I know you must think this is all very unfair. Maybe that’s an understatement. What you don’t know is I agree. I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don’t … Read more